Hosting a holiday cookie exchange is a great way to bring family and friends together and fill up the cookie jar for the holidays!
1. Chocolate-Peppermint Whoopie Pies
These soft, cakey sandwich cookies are perfect for the holidays; chocolate and peppermint are a classic combination, or swap vanilla extract, or use a jar of marshmallow crème in place of the frosting. The cookies are delicious on their own, too – like chocolaty muffin tops.
2. Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
Sugar cookies are a quick and simple cookie to whip up, and really fun to decorate with the whole family.
3. Sweet and Savoury Mustard Cranberry Cookies
This recipe creates a cookie packed with energy. Change up the fruit mixture to accommodate your likes.
4. Gingerbread Butter Cookies
These delicious traditional gingerbread cookies are a great way to create some holiday cheer. Make multiple batches and give them out as gifts. Enjoy them with a big glass of milk.
5. Chocolate Mint Crinkle Cookies
The perfect addition to your holiday baking repertoire, these brownie-like cookies are made with melted chocolate for an extra fudge-like texture.
6. Olde Fashioned Gingersnaps
These flavourful, chewy cookies are full of ginger and molasses goodness.
7. Jam Jam Cookies
A Jam Jam is a baked sandwich cookie made with two cakey cookies with jam sandwiched in between. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of variations of Jam Jams and one of the hottest topics amongst bakers is the use of molasses. Many outside the Atlantic provinces and Eastern Quebec, where molasses is a pantry staple, opt to use brown sugar instead of the white sugar-molasses combo they do on the East Coast.
